Word: paratroop
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...real loneliness of the office does not come from old friends preening and new ones pretending. It comes from the nature of the job. Dwight D. Eisenhower recalled how as a general, before D-Day, he had to decide whether to send two paratroop divisions into a sector where 9 out of 10 would probably be slaughtered. He eventually decided the troops were essential to the mission, and for years after that, he said, "I felt that only once in a lifetime could a problem of that sort weigh as heavily on a man's mind and heart." Then...